Things I did in the past: writing a PhD thesis about the reconfigurations of authors and readers in digital literature, teaching literature at the Universities of Trier, Bayreuth and Sivas, and Trinity College Dublin, studying a teachers' course of Physics and English, working with mentally disabled people, writing in a creative writing group in Leeds/UK, working with exchange students, playing volleyball, coding and working as a swapper in the C64 demo scene, selling my first computer game to a publishing house when I was sixteen, living in a lovely flat with a tiled stove for seven years, starring in a GCSE listening comprehension test... (to be continued)

You can contact me via email. If you are a student of mine, rather come to my office hours. Sometimes I offer sweets and cookies.

For my students at PH Ludwigsburg, the Universities of Trier, Bayreuth and Trinity College Dublin, I have collected some materials here.

"Prompter, Inspirer or Prophet? E. M. Forster and the World Wide Web" (Talk). The World of E. M. Forster— E. M. Forster and the World, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, University of Warsaw, University of Trier, International E. M. Forster Society. Olsztyn, 29 – 30 Sep. 2016.

"From eLit to pLit: Benefits and Limitations of a Model for the Visualization and Analysis of Collaborative Writing in Electronic and Printed Literature" (Talk). ELO 2016: New Horizons, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 10 – 12 June 2016 [Prezi].

WS 2014/2015 / University of Trier:301 The English Novel from the 17th to the 19th Century: From Aphra Behn to George Eliot(recommended editions (at Amazon.de): Behn, Richardson, Brown, Eliot, Swift, Braddon, Austen)

WS 2013/2014 / University of Trier:301 Constructions of Gender in Contemporary British Media Texts

WS 2013/2014 / Trinity College Dublin: Lecture Forms of Digital Literature: From Combinatoric/Kinetic Poetry to Blog Fiction (guest lecture in the core module "Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities" of the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture)

WS 2013/2014 / Trinity College Dublin: Lecture Reconfigurations of Author and Readership in Digital Literature (guest lecture in the core module "Theory and Practice of Digital Humanities" of the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture)

WS 2013/2014 / Trinity College Dublin:Barthes' Death of the Author and Foucault's Author Function: Theory and Aesthetic Implications (four-hour workshop at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute)

WS 2013/2014 / Trinity College Dublin:Collaborative Digital Writing: A Million Penguins and the War of the Collaborators - A Reconstruction and Discussion of Focal, Para and Social Texts (four-hour workshop at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute)

SS 2013

SS 2013 / University of Trier: Lecture 402 Approaches to Contemporary British Literature and Media

Style and Layout: Please stick to the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, solely. It is available at the library. This includes all kinds of details. E. g.: No cover/title pages; double line spacing throughout the essays; proper margins; parenthetical references in the text (instead of footnotes for refs) and a list of works cited at the end; the proper way of referencing on-line sources...

On the first page, make sure to have your full name, my name, the name of the course and the date. Please append, in parentheses, your course of studies, your Fachsemester and your matriculation number to your name (e.g. Sek1 PO2015, 3rd semester) and the current semester to the course title.

Keeping Your Pages Together: Please staple your pages at the upper left-hand corner. If you do not have a stapler, use a paper clip. Do not fold the paper; do not hand in your paper in a folder, a binder or a plastic jacket.

Questions/Queries: If you have questions, please, attend my office hours. You can register for them via Moodle.

If you are not sure if your thesis statement/research question and your proposed outline are sensible, please, attend my office hours. If you can't, send me an email.

There is no minimum number of secondary sources to be used. Your line of argument should be valid and convincing. Normally, you need secondary sources to achieve this as you do not have enough space on your 6/8/12 pages to prove every one of your statements right.

I don't need a list of contents. If you think it might improve the orientation, put it in as the last page.

Fonts and colours: Use some normal body-text font (Baskerville, Times, Minion, Garamond, Dante, Caslon, Jenson, Georgia) in a standard size (normally 12 pt.). Do not use a different font for headings unless you do it consciously and for a reason, not because your word processor does this automatically. Print in black (except, if you have to embed colour images) and avoid ostensibly fancy page decorations (friezes, horizontal lines).

Please be aware that my colleagues might have different rules, regulations and prefer other style sheets.

Plagiarism (one form of academic misconduct): Just don't! Don't be a kidnapper of other people's ideas or words. It wastes your as well as my time and will most often result in a fail of the course or even worse consequences. Always give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge the indebtedness when: a) directly quoting a source, b) using another person's ideas, c) paraphrasing the words and ideas of others, or d) using facts and other data by others. Please see the respective chapter in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers for more info.

Handing in the Essays: Please hand it in printed on paper (as described above). Additionally, please, upload it as RTF or PDF file (no DOC, DOCX, PAGES, TXT or the like) to the respective folder on Moodle. Post your paper via Hauspost (n.b. there are several people with the same surname at the UEL). If you decide to re-upload a revised version to Moodle, give it a number at the end of the new file name. E.g. 1st upload: XXXXX.RTF; Revised version: XXXXX2.RTF.

Have fun and good luck—and, please, do not despair at your essay (if you encounter severe problems, do come and talk to me)!

Supervised Bachelor Theses (Selection):

2013/2014

"The Representation of Female Characters in Japanese and American Video Games"

"Digital Versus Traditional Literature: The End of Books?"

2012/2013

“Dementia in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot”

“Dystopia and Reality: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Orwellian Elements in US Politics and Society”

2011/2012

“Victorian Dualisms: The Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

“Strategies of Repression in the Dystopian Novels Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale”

2010/11

“Representations of the Fourth Dimension in Victorian Literature”

2008/2009

“Harry Potter – A Children’s Classic? Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone compared to Five Children and It”

Unfortunately, I cannot supervise any further BA/BEd theses in the academic year 2017/2018.